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Welcome to the 21st Allied Media Conference!

This year we have gone VIRTUAL! AMC kicks-off Thursday July 23rd!

Browse all of our sessions below. Session times are listed by default in Eastern Standard Time.

We are excited to host 24 Virtual Network Gatherings this year. Network gatherings are taking place before and after conference and many are INVITE ONLY, those that are open to new guests will be updated in Sched. To learn more about Network Gatherings go here.

We offer a sliding scale registration rate so that the conference can be accessible to as many people as possible. Please support the AMC by giving generously with your registration contribution.

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10:00am EDT

Lounge Session VirtualHealing By Choice!

11:00am EDT

Care for the Future VirtualDani McClain • Loira Limbal • Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha • Veralucia Mendoza

1:00pm EDT

Language Justice and Beyond- LJ & Abolitionist Sex Virtual Radical Libraries, Archives, and Museums: Abolishing the Police in Your Head: Dismantling Carceral Culture in Libraries, Archives, and Museums Virtual

2:30pm EDT

"Coded Bias" Documentary Film Screening & Discussion VirtualSasha Costanza-Chock • Shalini Kantayya Building Noisemakers: Rhythm for the Revolution VirtualLeila Sidi Cripping the Podcast VirtualAimi Hamraie • Kevin Gotkin • Josh Halstead • Jarah Moesch • Kelsie Acton Holding Space Part I: Strategies for Anti-Oppressive Facilitation VirtualMaryse Mitchell-Brody • Autumn Brown It Takes a Village: Designing for Community Wellness VirtualIbrahim Ayub • Nafisa Isa • Andrew Tolentino • Nina Rayburn • Tan Nguyen Meme Tactics VirtualJosue Chavez • Kira Simon-Kennedy • Mikail Wright-Kwon • An Xiao Mina Embodied Practices: Motion & Meditation VirtualHealing By Choice! Defend.Develop.Decolonize: Building Indigenous Power VirtualSarah Manning • Willi White • Julian Brave Noisecat Poetry As Visionary Resistance to the Systems Out to Get Us VirtualTawana "Honeycomb" Petty • Joy Buolamwini • neta bomani • Greta Byrum Surveilled at Work: Tracked through an Amazon Warehouse VirtualRyan Gerety • Gabrielle Rejouis • Strea Sanchez What Does it Mean to be an Abolitionist in 2020? VirtualCritical Resistance CANCELLED------Black Fat Futures: Building a World Where We Can Be Free VirtualHunter Shackelford • Brienne 'BC' Colston Envisioning New Transmasculinities for People of Color VirtualAqdas Aftab • Samia (any/all) Fungus Among Us: How do we grow our mycelium? VirtualJulia Kong • Brooke Staton Queering Public Space: Youth-Driven Systemic Change VirtualNajee-Zaid Searcy • Alexis Villagomez • Lindsay C. Harris • Mei Kazama • Stefan Caizaguano • Ashley Cervantes

5:00pm EDT

Fat Plants & Thriving in Abundant Bodies Virtualsára abdullah • Nicole Acosta Nemergut From Copwatch to Photoshop, a toolkit for community defense VirtualAlex Webster • Divad Durant Holding Space Part II: Co-Creating Accessibility Virtualchelsea cleveland • Maryse Mitchell-Brody • Autumn Brown Infographics 101: A Movement Science Graphic Ally Hackathon Virtual "What's Love Got To Do With It?' VirtualParker Westwood • Kori Davenport • Zee St.James • Hannah The Hatchet Grace Lee Boggs's Concept of Visionary Organizing VirtualScott Kurashige • Shea Howell • Dakarai Carter • Marisol Teachworth New Approaches to School Abolition VirtualJulia Cuneo • n8 mullen • David Stovall • Siobhan O'Laoire • Detroit Area Youth Uniting Michigan Members Psychedelics as Media for Liberation VirtualJustice Rivera • Ismail L. Ali, J.D. • La Pachamami The Critical Need for Black Media Reparations VirtualAlicia Bell • Janine Jackson • Brandi Collins-Dexter • Manolia Charlotin • Collette Watson Future Archives: Digital Archives and Content Curation for Liberation VirtualBomin Jeon • Virginia Poundstone • Kimi Hanauer • Amber Vanterpool Inside Out: Accountable Mutual Aid Work with Incarcerated People VirtualAmalia Golomb-Leavitt • Brittany A. Rothe • Leila Lee Organizing Against Invasive Property Technologies VirtualErin McElroy • Dyan Ruiz • Joseph Smooke • Wonyoung So • Deborah Raji The Equitable Internet Initiative: A Decentralized Approach VirtualJanice Gates • Houman Saberi

7:00pm EDT

Ethnic Lit! Virtual DNA Presents: Ethics & Aesthetics Part 2 Virtual

7:30pm EDT

Seeds of Power: Cultivating Resilience through Food in Borikén, Palestine & Diaspora VirtualTara Rodriguez Besosa • Gabriela Alvarez • Amanny Ahmad • Reem Assil • Pao Lebron • Laila Elhaddad Black Sober QTs meetup! Virtualgolden collier • KT Kennedy Black T/GNC Music Making Lab VirtualJoie Lou Shakur • June Pratt Cultural Strategy for Liberation: A Community Meet-Up VirtualNayantara Sen • Evan Bissel • Sage Crump Disability Justice Organizers Meetup VirtualJaime Junior • Tameka Citchen-Spruce La Sala's Fem/me 4 Fem/me series: Kinky & Afraid VirtualLee Jimenez • jo valdes Seeds of Our Collective Sobriety VirtualShannon GarthRhodes • Sicily Amaris Weaving “Us” By Us For Us: Collectives Gathering & Skill-Share VirtualTsige Tafesse • Katherine Tom • Jazmin Jones • Sonia Choi Radical Libraries, Archives, and Museums: Meetup & Skillshare Virtual

10:00pm EDT

SONORAMA Vintage Latin Sounds VirtualSONORAMA To Be Divine:Drag Performance NIght VirtualRy Douglas • Sebastian Olayo Werk from Home Party VirtualMaimouna Youssef/ MUMU FRESH • Dez Andres